It was supposed to be a routine training session for Tom Albert, who has been fighting fires for 25 years. Albert and other members of Boulder Fire Rescue were near the area of 17th Street and King Avenue on June 13 to do some wildland fire training. "We were just going through what we would do in case there was a real fire," Albert said.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Camera

Baltimore County officials say they are using firefighters, paramedics and police officers to temporarily fill staffing gaps at its 911 center. Eight employees from other departments were transferred to the 911 center in September and will be working there until March, county spokeswoman Ellen Kobler said.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

A property-tax levy to bring city fire stations up to current seismic codes doesn’t usually generate much controversy. Voters typically consider fire stations, like schools, essential public facilities whose occupants should be safe in an earthquake. But in Bellevue, one part of a 20-year, $120 million fire facilities levy on the November ballot calls for a new downtown station to ensure rapid response times for all the new high-rise office and apartment buildings in the commercial center.
- PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times - Metered Site

Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) Fire Department rescue-pumper. Freightliner M2-106 cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 300, 300-hp engine; Honda EW6500SXKC gas/electric start generator; Hale Midship DSD 1,250-gpm pump.

Firefighters who responded to a garage fire in west Yakima on Sunday afternoon were able to keep it from spreading to nearby homes. Eighteen firefighters from the Yakima and West Valley fire departments initially responded to the blaze, located on Saddle Brook Court, said Yakima Fire Battalion Chief Jennifer Norton.
- PUB DATE: 10/16/2016 7:04:46 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic